00:00The Nocturnal Car Club is one of the biggest customized vehicle clubs in the world, with chapters across America, Europe and Asia.
00:20I say this is a hobby, but it sure doesn't feel like no hobby.
00:24You put in more hours than you do at work. We love it, but it feels like a full-time job.
00:29The members spend hundreds of thousands of pounds and countless hours turning their regular cars into moving, roaring works of art.
00:38Here you have a 1998 Chevy two-door Tahoe.
00:42We converted the whole front end, as you see, fenders.
00:45We added oversized wheels, 28-inch, fully engraved and painted.
00:50We added a nice mural on top of the hood, our candy paint job, pearl paint job and then some pin striping.
00:58Money-wise, it's very hard to pinpoint it, but a rough estimate would probably be 90,000 to 100.
01:08I know it sounds like a lot to a lot of people, but also it's a build that has taken maybe four to four plus years.
01:15First start doing it for, you know, the girls. Why lie? But eventually you do it so long, you overlook that.
01:25That's not what you're building it. You fall in love with the builds and, you know, the attention the builds get and everybody's reaction of something different.
01:31When they first see our rides on the street or anywhere we're setting them up, first thing that comes out of people's mouth is, you know, wow.
01:39Second thing is, why would you do that to a new car?
01:41Our car club is, we try to go after the newest stuff and pretty much mess it up.
01:46The car is great. It's fantastic. It seems there's no part of this car that's not customized.
01:57The paint is extraordinary. Definitely has show quality. This vehicle is definitely above the top. Unique.
02:06We ran out of ideas on cars, so why not build a golf cart, right? We put some 14-inch rims on the golf cart.
02:13LEDs all the way on the bottom. Halo lights. It's got TVs everywhere. We have an iPad that goes on the dash.
02:19Xbox 360 in the back. And actually this damn golf cart weighs probably as much as a car.
02:25I'm sitting on a good 12 batteries right now. You spend at least $5,000 just on these batteries.
02:31Despite the incredible amount of time and money involved in being a member of the club,
02:35it's grown exponentially since its inception in 2001.
02:39We started in Montebello, California. We've expanded to 28 chapters,
02:44including Texas, Florida, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Arizona, Nevada, Utah,
02:52and now presently in Japan as well.
02:55Nocturnal as a club, I mean, now it's more like family.
02:59I've missed so many birthday parties, parties, and we've gone everywhere with these guys,
03:04with our members, you know, and sometimes they do more for you than your own family does.
03:09Everybody thinks I'm crazy in my family. They say I waste too much money on it.
03:14But my perks are different. My rewards are different.
03:17I grew up reading Lowrider magazine here. Always aspired to maybe one day come out in the magazine.
03:23But successfully we've won, and I'm a three-time champ when it comes to lowrider.
03:29Say I'm obsessed with all these vehicles, but I don't call it obsessed.
03:33It's just, you know, what you love doing.
03:35What you love doing.
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